...and services will converge with the computing and content sectors. This will bring many more players into this already huge industry. Thus the transition to 3G needs to be regarded...
Resale price maintenance (RPM) has been a “hot” antitrust issue in the antitrust landscape in China. This year, two antitrust enforcement actions by China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)...
In this paper, we empirically test for network effects and preannouncement effects in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network...
...intermediate category wherein a computer works at one end and a person at the other. But the existence of this category does not change the fundamental dynamics which are described...
Structuring consortia requires an awareness of the antitrust, trademark, tax, technology ownership and other issues which are unique to consortium formation and operation. This article surveys those issues which are...
This article is a shorter version of ‘Standard Setting and Consortium Structures’. This version appeared in the May, 1995 issue of Geo Info Systems, and is copyrighted by that journal....
While small joint venture groups and large commercial ventures like Sematech preceded 1988, that year marked the initial explosion of private consortium formation. This article placed the new trend in...
...private consortia would facilitate the rapid, cost-effective and efficient evolution of the many new specifications and standards necessary to permit the NII to continue to develop and keep America competitive....
A provision of a recently enacted Federal law has given strong reinforcement to the standards movement, and could re-energize the formation of standard-setting consortia. The National Technology Transfer and Advancement...
This site follows US and international cases and other developments relating to antitrust laws and standards development. It includes helpful articles, links and other standards resources...